Jump to full article: CNN-IBN (in), 2008-04-20
Intro: Halki Bai, a Dalit woman from Madhya Pradesh’s Biharipura village, does not have any idea where her husband and son have gone. The only thing she remembers is an attack on their house allegedly by the village Thakurs.
She said her husband was mercilessly beaten up and asked to leave the village with a warning not to show his face again.
“The Thakurs do not behave properly with us. It is not just this incident, they do not allow us to fetch water and we are forced to carry our shoes on our heads while passing in front of their houses,” Halki Bai said.
The immediate provocation for the Thakurs' action was apparently a Dalit smoking without taking permission during a funeral procession.
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